Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress and what by a dome.

Sit down before fact as a little child be prepared to give up every conceived notion follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads or you will learn nothing.

The world is too much with us late and soon getting and spending we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.

For greed all nature is too little.

To feel much for others and little for ourselves to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections constitute the perfection of human nature.

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.

Those little nimble musicians of the air that warble forth their curious ditties with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.

Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds in wheels shoot long and lovely and lush Thrush's eggs look little low heavens and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.